Does Biden get stigma from having abortion criminalised under his Presidency however it's looked at. Is it going to be something taht is permanently attached to his name.Like even allowing it to happen when he's in a position of supposed power.& shouldn't that mean he does whatever he can to prevent it to stop it attaching to him or for more egalitarian less centred on him reasons.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 July 2022 10:30 (one year ago) link
He’s against abortion, he doesn’t give a shit
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Like the guy is quite literally on the record as being against abortion
Yet if he had the senatorial support he'd sign a carve-out to the filibuster. Because he's been an obstreperous hack since 1974 who'll say anything to stay in power.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
you see the problem here is you need a revolution or a 3rd party that was interested in doing things proactively and not in reaction to a negative other.Should just ground SCOTUS until they learn how to behave. Would be so good if there was a way of keeping a body like that in tune with contemporary mores. If Thomas gets his way will he be tolerated by the ruling party anyway. I mean, what is happening. Quite enjoyed having a world that seemed like it might possibly improve. Do they need to keep running worst case scenario until things look better in comparison.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
In one way it's a bummer that more off the record secret service sources have already refuted the off the record refutations of Trump's steering wheel lunge, especially the claim that his sheer size prevented such a move, because I woke up in the middle of the night with the phrase "too big to flail" stuck in my head and found it really amusing.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Imagine being Liz Cheney and being the only semi-competent human being on stage and having to pretend to take all those other people remotely seriously and knowing that you're going to lose to them.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
BTW, I saw an interesting comment re: the anti-abortion judge Biden is allegedly going to nominate. Someone with more knowledge than me can unpack it:
Ok, some clarification may be in order here regarding the context.First of all, the only thing Biden can promise is a nomination. He can’t promise any votes from the Democratic caucus, and he can’t promise that no Democratic Senator won’t filibuster the nomination (and under existing rules any Democratic Senator can do so anonymously). Unless the GOP can attract at least one vote from the Democratic caucus and ensure that not one Democratic Senator filibusters the nomination and ensure that if filibustered at least 10 members of the Democratic caucus vote with the GOP to overcome the filibuster, that guy wouldn’t be confirmed.Second, based on the wording in this article (I’m not paying for an account with the Courier Journal to confirm), if the judgeship is “in Kentucky” it’s a District Court judgeship. That’s a lifetime appointment, but it’s a trial level judgeship in a State that falls under the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which the Federalist Society hates) and U.S. Supreme Court. According to uscourts.gov, there are currently 75 Federal judicial vacancies and pending nominations for 20 of those vacancies, including 2 for Circuit Court of Appeals positions. The only federal judicial nominations that can proceed to be confirmed without potentially being blocked by a filibuster are Supreme Court Justices (see Ketanji Brown Jackson). 50 votes plus Kamala is enough to get a Supreme Court Justice nominee confirmed. It’s not enough to get any other Federal judgeship confirmed. Assuming the article is accurate, it is a trade of 1 trial level judge nomination (and presumably only a nomination because Biden can’t promise that no Democratic Senator will filibuster or that 10 Democratic Senators will vote to override the veto) that would be bound by decisions and subject to appeal to the Sixth Circuit (which the Federalist Society hates) and eventual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has no vacancies at the moment, in exchange for 19 Federal judgeships, including 2 Circuit Courts of Appeal Judges. If the agreement was more far ranging than just existing nominations, it could potentially be as much as a trade of 1 Kentucky trial court judgeship in exchange for 74 Federal judgeships, including 7 Circuit Court of Appeals judgeships.This doesn’t speak to whether McConnell will live up to his end of the bargain, but I suspect McConnell and Biden have probably made analogous deals in the past that McConnell honored.
First of all, the only thing Biden can promise is a nomination. He can’t promise any votes from the Democratic caucus, and he can’t promise that no Democratic Senator won’t filibuster the nomination (and under existing rules any Democratic Senator can do so anonymously). Unless the GOP can attract at least one vote from the Democratic caucus and ensure that not one Democratic Senator filibusters the nomination and ensure that if filibustered at least 10 members of the Democratic caucus vote with the GOP to overcome the filibuster, that guy wouldn’t be confirmed.
Second, based on the wording in this article (I’m not paying for an account with the Courier Journal to confirm), if the judgeship is “in Kentucky” it’s a District Court judgeship. That’s a lifetime appointment, but it’s a trial level judgeship in a State that falls under the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which the Federalist Society hates) and U.S. Supreme Court. According to uscourts.gov, there are currently 75 Federal judicial vacancies and pending nominations for 20 of those vacancies, including 2 for Circuit Court of Appeals positions. The only federal judicial nominations that can proceed to be confirmed without potentially being blocked by a filibuster are Supreme Court Justices (see Ketanji Brown Jackson). 50 votes plus Kamala is enough to get a Supreme Court Justice nominee confirmed. It’s not enough to get any other Federal judgeship confirmed. Assuming the article is accurate, it is a trade of 1 trial level judge nomination (and presumably only a nomination because Biden can’t promise that no Democratic Senator will filibuster or that 10 Democratic Senators will vote to override the veto) that would be bound by decisions and subject to appeal to the Sixth Circuit (which the Federalist Society hates) and eventual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has no vacancies at the moment, in exchange for 19 Federal judgeships, including 2 Circuit Courts of Appeal Judges. If the agreement was more far ranging than just existing nominations, it could potentially be as much as a trade of 1 Kentucky trial court judgeship in exchange for 74 Federal judgeships, including 7 Circuit Court of Appeals judgeships.
This doesn’t speak to whether McConnell will live up to his end of the bargain, but I suspect McConnell and Biden have probably made analogous deals in the past that McConnell honored.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Who wrote that?
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Gore Vidal
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Kinja user "Tropicana"
― jaymc, Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Imagine being Liz Cheney and being the only semi-competent human being on stage and... knowing that you're going to lose to them.
I imagine her essential self-confidence and sense of self-worth will not be damaged by the loss, nor will her financial situation, but the only shield I can imagine that would be powerful enough to deflect the sheer frustration of being thrown out by those yahoos and nincompoops would be an invincible arrogance - and hers just may be equal to that task.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah I mean also fuck her obviously.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
It's a great indication of where we are, that a Cheney is the one we look to in the Republican party as doing the right and honorable thing.
I have to say, like Kamala Harris, she would make a great prosecutor--or, better, a defense lawyer. Her skills would be put to much better use in that context.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Wyoming is an open primary state, no?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
From Ballotpedia:
Wyoming law stipulates that parties conduct open primaries for congressional and state-level offices. While a voter must be affiliated with a political party in order to participate in its primary election, any voter, regardless of previous partisan affiliation, may change his or her affiliation on the day of the primary.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah, fuck Cheney obviously, but also fuck all those other clowns on stage more. What a country. xxp
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Arizona to Wyoming: "Hold our beer."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-trump-backed-frontrunner-in-arizona-s-gubernatorial-race-said-the-gop-primary-debate-felt-like-a-spoof/ar-AAZ6ppM?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=77a1722ebe704ea0f75beb04de624991
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
This doesn’t speak to whether McConnell will live up to his end of the bargain
if only we knew something about his track record in this regard
o if only
fwiw I was recently talking to my sister, who knows (but does not like) Liz Cheney, and is pretty sure she's playing a longer game. Wyoming is not the world, after all.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
Sounds right. also
an invincible arrogance - and hers just may be equal to that task.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
No one in politics can hate like a Cheney, and no one in politics can hate without losing focus like a Cheney.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
More so than Trump?! We'll see.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Although he does sometimes lose focus in his longer speeches, and on some of his cronies.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Dick Cheney is more of a menace than Trump, which is saying a lot. Expanded executive powers to alarming levels, helped curb civil liberties, ruthless warmonger. he helped lay the welcome mat for Trump basically.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah--Trump is not interested in military adventures, so far. He doesn't trust the military, at home or abroad.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
He loves displays of military might, and worships "da troops." But he's not interested in war per se because there's no way for his companies to profit from it. He's not in defense contracting, he's in real estate. So unless he can get a couple of billion to turn one of his golf courses into an air force base...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
Also all those generals he surrounded himself with bailed, and he even ditched Flynn for a while.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Trump v. Papa Cheney on the "greater evil" scale is complex but also they're both Extremely Evil so the differences are sort of academic. Liz Cheney is not someone I would ever vote for for anything but she's massively overperforming expectations for Republican members of Congress in 2022, so I'm not going to carp about her right now.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be shot in the face by dick chaney because at least when he does it it’s over in two seconds. when his daughter does it it goes on for months— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 28, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be bitten by Lon Chaney
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Sunday, 3 July 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
I saw Liz Cheney walkin with the queen
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/06/america-new-civil-war-crisis-industrial-complex
great piece by nikhil pal singh - should be the last word on "impending civil war" but won't be obviously.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Good encapsulation of the past 50 years by this dude:
1/ Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work (a thread):— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 3, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
will otm. The first election I voted in and of course my state fucked it up
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
(I voted Nader. Ugh.)
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Yeah, 2000 was when it clicked for the GOP that bullying and arrogant postering was enough to get the Dems to fold. Conveniently more or less right between the Contract with America and the Tea Party.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
i may have said this before and it’s incredibly embarrassing and indefensible, but I didn’t even vote in 2000. It was TN so it didn’t really matter (wild thing to say about a nominee’s home state feels like a v modern development. Clintons really changed the game). 2002 midterms was when I was like holy fuck we gotta do something! 20 full years later I’m like holy fuck we gotta do something!
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
home state, it feels like*
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
(Obv Bill won AR both times but it feels like that was the last time someone like him could win in a place like that, local boy be damned)
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Most of this is paywalled, but starts:
Key PointsFormer Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.Secret Service official Tony Ornato disputed her claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel.Former Trump aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin say Ornato has a history of lying for Trump.
Secret Service official Tony Ornato disputed her claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel.
Former Trump aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin say Ornato has a history of lying for Trump.
On the record, yeah.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/03/two-former-white-house-aides-say-top-secret-service-official-may-lying-protect-trump/7796127001/?gnt-cfr=1
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Voted for Nader, would do it again in a heartbeat.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem avoided answering whether or not she would change the state's law to allow a 10-year-old rape victim to get an abortion. "The Indianapolis Star" is reporting that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was six weeks and three days pregnant now has to travel across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion," CNN's Dana Bash asked Noem on Sunday. "So I just -- because this is a trigger law that was passed before you became governor, I wanted you to be clear. Will the state of South Dakota going forward force a 10-year-old in that very same situation to have a baby?"South Dakota bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The trigger law went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
"The Indianapolis Star" is reporting that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was six weeks and three days pregnant now has to travel across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion," CNN's Dana Bash asked Noem on Sunday. "So I just -- because this is a trigger law that was passed before you became governor, I wanted you to be clear. Will the state of South Dakota going forward force a 10-year-old in that very same situation to have a baby?"
South Dakota bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The trigger law went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.
This badly distorts what Hutchinson really testified.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
WATCH: Health and Human Services Sec. Xavier Becerra says there’s not a lot the Biden administration can do for abortion rights. @SecBecerra: “Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value, we have to heed the word of the Supreme Court.” pic.twitter.com/yfbp6j7JIO— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) July 3, 2022
Yeah, imagine if we did that
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Biden screwed Beshear by agreeing to a deal with McConnell to nominate an antiabortion federal judge in exchange for two temporary prosecutors.So Beshear seems to have leaked that Biden originally scheduled the nomination for the day Roe was overturned. https://t.co/kAfIcLVAnG— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value
absolutely fine with this
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 July 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes. (with @rachsieg) https://t.co/WFFw5P9xdK— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) July 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 4 July 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Once there were Tent Cities, now there are SUV Suburbs.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 July 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Soon turned out To be a pain in the ass
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 July 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Boring: sorry, nope, the FHWA facility adjacent to CIA HQ is just a test track. Their headquarters is in SE.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 August 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link